The winners of the 77th Annual Academy Awards!!

Cate Blanchett

Best Picture: MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Achievement in Directing: MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx for RAY
Best Actress: Hilary Swank for MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman for MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett for THE AVIATOR

Cate Blanchett won a prize! I’m so happy to hear that. I haven’t watched her act in THE AVIATOR yet, but I think her act must be so special! You watched “Elizabeth” (leading actress is her!)? If you watch it, you would easily understand why she got a prize.

OSCAR.com - 77th Annual Academy Awards →http://www.oscar.com/index.html
MILLION DOLLAR BABY→ http://milliondollarbabymovie.warnerbros.com/intro.html
RAY→ http://www.raymovie.com/index.php
THE AVIATOR→ http://theaviatormovie.com/

Please give me something special!

At any minute, final exam is going to begin! Coming this season, I always think if there is ~ on earth. For instance, “If there is a nice automatic pencil that can write automatically correct answer” or “If there are any good supplements that make our brain much smarter ”. I understand they are impossible wishes, but if someone developed Doraemon, the trouble will be change!!

Where do you live in?

map

These days I’m very happy because of my site’s global map. By the map, I can know where the visitors of my blog are live or born in.
In fact, I made a friend through this blogger’s network. Her (maybe I think “her” not his) name is Eäradë. Why we’ve known each other is that when I visit her site by chance (I clicking “NEXT BLOG” button upper right on our blog, I happened to visit her site) I was so amazed. Because there are so many articles about Japanese ANIME!! She is very familiar with J-comics and she read many MANGAs.
From her E-mail address, I had thought that she is a Spanish and lives in Spain. But it’s wrong. I lately knew she lives in Canary Islands. Canary Islands are Spain area, so she speaks Spain. Do you guess how far Japan and Canary Island is?? Canary Islands are very close to Africa and in Atlantic Ocean!!
I’m so glad to become a friend such a faraway country’s people and I made more friends like Eäradë!!

Susan Bijl's bag

Yesterday was happy because I bought a lovely shopping bag!! The name is The New Shoppingbag designed by Susan Bijl who lives in Amsterdam. I found it in Chihiro Ishino’s website (http://www.geocities.jp/ciiciic/). I once introduced its site, but did you remember??
Anyway, it’s made out of coated nylon, as used in kites. What is the bag’s specialty is we can select the 10 body colors and some line colors. And we can chose from 41 combinations!!
Hurry to get it! If you were dragging, the very bag you want to buy would be sold out!

If you want to know about Susan Bijl→http://www.susanbijl.nl/
If you want to know more intonations → http://www.hellogasshop.com/

Lost in translation

Today I saw a movie, Lost In Translation. The story is about two Americans, Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star and he came to Japan to shoot a commercial. Charlotte is young wife and she follows her husband, doing photographer. Both of them can’ t sleep in such an unaccustomed place like Tokyo. One day, Bob have a chance encounter with Charlotte and they become a very good friends.

Subsequence is secret! If you want to know, Watch it!! Anyway I think this movie is the very daily life though their encounter is not unusual thing. They just saw Japanese things, feel loneliness in other country and are frustrating not to make themselves understood in Japanese. In this movie, there is no specific story. But I think, in these days’ movie world, this kind of the story is rare while there are many highflying stories. Of course I love both type, but I think, there should be more realistic life like this movie.

In addition, I’d like to introduce about Sofia Coppola. As you know, Sofia Coppola grew up in the advantaged environment. Her father is a movie director, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (1972), The Godfather 2 (1974) and he won the Academy Award, The Godfather 3 (1990). First, she was interested in photograph and studied about it (she set out ads of the “Parco”), and she became a fashion model, too! (And she made the cover of the “VOUGE”) Then she started to study about fashion and founded “MILK FED” and produced “x-girl”. Of course she became an actress, too!! When she was baby, she was in the father’s movie, The Godfather. And in The Godfather 3, She bowed as an Al Pacino’s daughter. She has much ability. I hadn’t known her well, but knowing them, now , I really respect her.

Lost in Translation
Produced by Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola.
Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola.
Executive Producers, Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos.
Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson

Lost in Translation : http://www.lost-in-translation.com/
MILK FED : http://www.milkfed.jp/
x-girl : http://www.x-girl.jp/

Tokyo Disney Sea 3

Long time no see this topic!

After we ate dinner, we take some attractions.
20:20~21:35
・Aquatopia (without the wait)
・Stormrider (with the five minutes wait)
・Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull (with about 10 minutes wait)
・Blowfish Balloon Race (with a minutes wait)
・20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (without the wait)

Spectacle of the Night’s TDS is so pretty that I felt as if I were in one of the European cities. I loved it very much! And I had a great time at there.

About Special Button in this page

I set interesting button here. Look right side below Archives. There are some kind of Icon. Click ‘CLICK HERE View my Guest map Place you pin’ and do that. At there, I want you to place your pin. (Do not place where you are now but Where You are Born or Nationality)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ♪

C3

Today is my mother’s Birthday!! She became ○7 years old. I think, for her, birthday isn’t happy day, you know, because just get old! The only thing she glad is to be able to eat cake. So I come back with Cake! (The photo above this article is the cake which I bought for her)

C3→ http://www.ccc-c3.jp/#

Valentine Day

Did you make some chocolates or any other snacks?? I planed to make chocolate but I failed, so I couldn’t gave them to my friends who gave me snacks last Valentine Day and in my class It was not so big mistake but they had but appearance.
Anyway I found very cute chocolate. It had introduced this year (and I knew it on TV) so you would have known it. The name of the company is RICHART and they provide interesting chocolates. Look at the photo that I posted above. On the chocolates, there are funny drawings that are excellent handiwork in the design contest held by RICHART every year for under twelve-year old children. I hear this chocolate is sold at Ropponngi Hills, so if you have a time to go there, check it!

THE NOTEBOOK

Does anyone read it, The Notebook, yet?? This is one of the bestseller books in the US. And this novel’ is made into movie, Kimini yomu monogatari (君に読む物語), in Japan, too. I heard that this movie is pathetic story. But in fact, I don’t like this kind of movies so much because I want movie to be more excited or nervous one, like action, SF or Fantasy movie. And I think, to see the movie like, TV screen is enough size, and I don’t want pay 1500 yen. But anyway, I don’t want you to jump to conclusion. I like moving movies.
Why I tell about this story without watching this movie is that I heard this is the best book for foreign book’s beginners. It isn’t so much thick, large alphabet and easy to read!
So I’ll decide to read from tomorrow!
The NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks

What do you ask?

Recently, I found interest article in my Oral English Teacher’s Blog. If you ask these Questions, What do you ask?

1. What word do you really like?
2. What word do you dislike?
3. What turns you on?
4. What turns you off?
5. What sound do you like?
6. What sound do you dislike?
7. What smell do you like?
8. What smell do you dislike?
9. What job would you like to try?
10. What job would you really hate?
11. If you were stuck on a desert island, what book, movie, and famous person would you like
there with you?

My answers are…

1. ‘ you know’ in English (because native people whose mother tongue often says so) and
‘hattari’ or ‘kiai’ in Japanese.
2. ‘shyouganai’ in Japnese.
3. movie or creative things or people.
4. people who doesn’t have humble attitude.
5. instruments’ timbre.
6. ambulance siren.
7. citrus fragrance.
8. fishy smell.
9. movie company’s press agent.
10. politician.
11. 20th century boys (manga), Dances With Wolves, because I hear this movie is movie among
movies, Rinnka.

If you want to read original article, go to this site→http://www.ellenseflblog.blogspot.com/

Tokyo Disney Sea 2

I had a rendezvous with Chie, my friend, at 5 o'clock and went to TDS. We had decided to enter at 6 o’clock, so we had a plenty of time to talk.
Our purposes to come there are to see a show, Rhythms of the World 2005 that began from the day.
6:00 We enter TDS.
6:00~7:10 We were standing and waiting to see the Show.
The show was great! As its theme was rhythms, Central American, European, Asian, and African music and dance performances were enthusiastic ! Of course Characters’and dancers’ costumes were fantastic because they dance in folk dress!

Nippon chachacha!!!

Beaut! Japan wins a match against North Korea (2-1).
When I heard from my friend about Japanese first goal, I thought the victory of ours would be authenticity. But, North Korean team equalized 15 minutes into the second half. I never thought of that. And I come to become doubtful whether Japan wins or lost. But, but but!! At the very time when the game would be over, Oguro (center of the picture) made a second goal!
In North Korean team, you know, there are two men of third-generation of Korean residents in Japan. They must have played with mixed feelings. What did they feel throughout this game? What are they thinking now? I don’t know, but in this game, they might feel something that other players didn’t have in their mind.

sleeeeeeepy

I make a rule to update this blog from February 4. But I’m very very sleepy now, so the yesterday’s story about TDS will be updated tomorrow.
Wmmm good night!!

Tokyo Disney Sea

I went to Disney Sea on February 1st with my old friend. As it's been a while since we met last (we had not met each other for two years!) so I was so looking forward to meet and talk with her.
She is very clever girl and she is an Urawa Ichijyo girl’s high school student. We get to know each other in JUKU, (cram school). She love Disney world, especially Disney Sea. She often goes to there; it’s her best happiness (I think). Because she has bought Year-Passport of Disney Land (and Sea) many times and if she hadn’t bought it, she says, she’ll frequently go there!

February 6, 2005

grandma gave me this↑


My grandmother sent very sweet strawberries for us. Thanks grandma!! I loved them! She lives in Tochigi, Shinn Oohirasita. Every year, she sends us grapes in summer and strawberries in winter. Both of them are very big (I can’t compare them with fruits in supermarkets) and enormously sweet!!

Today I got up so late…In fact, I planed to make some chocolates but because of that, I couldn’t. I’ve never made chocolates by myself, so I’ll use a kit sold in MUJIRUSHI. For me, I think it’s the best way to give my friends gifts!

Anyway, you’ve heard that!?!? Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player, won the game!! Yesterday I saw her interview and I was surprised that not only her appearance but also her inner face was mannish. I thought all athletes who are flourished in the world, ( like ICHIRO or AI FUKUHARA , has humility and consistent destination. They are very aggressive against improve his (or her) capacity. From their attitude, we have to learn many things. They always do their best in spit of their special ability that they’ve got. They never stop improving their ability.
So I’d like to do so, too. I’ll never give up my dream, and forget to do my best in any time and anywhere.

February 5, 2005

Today, I watched a movie. Goody!! OCEAN’S TWELVE!
George Clooney was so handsome!! You know, he’s not married now, so it’s a chance for me to marry with him.
Brad Pitt, I thought he became much more cooler than he was. I really thought his shingled heir stile matches well with him!! AND, (Have you seen that??) he primped his white suit well in this movie.
Matt Damon. Well, I liked his role.
Julia Roberts. I didn’t think anything special for her, but her role was the funniest role in this movie. Because… oh no, I mustn’t tell what was funny.
And Catherine Zeta-Jones!! I’ve loved her since I watched “CHICAGO”. She was beautiful and her new heir stile made her role much suitable one. Of course her fashion was remarkable. (And when they had still done their works to make the film, Julia was jealous of Catherine’s many costumes, and made theatrical costumer change all her costumes!!)

The movie must be funny and comedy touch, but for me, it was difficult to understand whole of the story. It was complicated!! So, I’ll watch again.

February 4, 2005

I was so disappointed. I would take a TOEFL test today, but…because I got up early I couldn’t take it. When I waked up and see my mobile phone, the time is eight A.M.- the very time the TOEFL test begins! Boo hoo hoo well, never mind.

Only one thing that I loved today is sweet sweet bread. I ate two breads as lunch. One is bagel and the other is French toast with cream cheese. I love bread, so after I ate them, I had forgot my gloom that I made this morning.